The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 15
Therefore the next day at noon Owen put on his coat of mail, and over it he wore a splendid mantle, while on his feet were leather shoes fastened with clasps of gold.
Who acts: Owen · What happens: put, wear, be, fasten · To what, where: coat, splendid mantle, mail, leather shoes, feet
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 noon | case |
| 6 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 7 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 put | nsubj |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 coat | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 coat | nmod:poss |
| 11 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 mail | case |
| 13 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coat | nmod | ||
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wore | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wore | cc |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wore | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wore | nsubj |
| 19 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 put | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mantle | det |
| 21 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mantle | amod |
| 22 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wore | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shoes | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 shoes | mark |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 feet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 shoes | obl |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 shoes | cop |
| 29 | leather | leather | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 shoes | amod |
| 30 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wore | parataxis |
| 31 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 shoes | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 clasps | case |
| 33 | clasps | clasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 fastened | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 gold | case |
| 35 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 clasps | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Owen | Owen's coat of mail | day | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on coat=Destination | |||
| 2 | wear | past | Owen | a splendid mantle | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | leather shoes | Owen's feet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fasten | participle | leather shoes not said here | with clasps of gold | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with clasp=Co-Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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